Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides February 8 Show features Wes White’s lookback at the 10th Anniversary Union Meet + a Flashback to April 15, 2015 with Al Williams of Fresno & SC 11 Updates

The February 8, 2026 show includes:

Data: Police Use More Force on Homeless

Man Shot by Police Now Faces Charges

The Flashback to April 15, 2015 includes:

  • https://www.cgaa.org/article/history-of-wells-fargo-scandals ; current anti-W.F. protest
  • Phone Interview with Al Williams, formerly homeless Fresno activist, housed by the Kinkaid settlement and FUCF (the Free United Coalition of Fresno)
  • Danika De Foy on holding off police at the remnants of the Occupy Santa Cruz movement.
  • George on protest at the upcoming Well Fargo Shareholders Meeting
  • Stewart Alexander on the Peace & Freedom Party and Socialist Party USA.
  • Silver-tongued Steve Pleich on Project Connect & Support for the SC-11.

Carol Denney: “Non-Violence Defeated UC Davis PD”

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides February 5, 2026 show is a Flashback to the complete August 30, 2001 show with interviews from Miami Civil Rights Attorney Arthur Rosenberg on the aftermath of the Pottinger decision and settlement there

The February 5, 2026 show is a Flashback to August 30, 2001 includes:

  • Bill Vaughn, anti-war opponent of depleted uranium weapons and homeless UCSC resident, tells of cop evictions & speaks favorably of Camp Paradise
  • FRSC Broadcaster Earth Mommer grills Bathrobespierre by phone, asks what he’d do on City Council.
  • https://lawreview.law.miami.edu/criminalization-homelessness-post-pottinger-world/
  • Florida attorney Arthur Rosenberg on the aftermath of the Pottinger settlement protecting Miami and Ft. Lauderdale homeless engaging in life-sustaining behavior.
  • “Dangerous John” updates the Mumia Abu Jamal case

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides February 1, 2026 Show has Roach, Craig, and Keith + a Flashback to August 15, 1999 with Joel K, Patches, Linda L, David S., and Jane B. + more!

The February 1, 2026  Show includes:

  • “Sweeping Encampments to Reduce Homelessness is a Santa Cruz Numbers Game not a Solution”
  • https://www.rt.com/podcast/631779-deep-state-exists-johnson/ by John Kiriakou
  • [1-30] Joe in a wheelchair at the Town Clock as anti-ICE abuse youth march happens around him
  • [1-31] A 2nd anti-Ice protest at Food Not Bombs: Anonymous reports on homeless feed in Monterey
  • Craig Rubel on FNB with mainstay Drew recovering from an accident
  • FNB co-founder Keith McHenry & volunteer security Roach report

The Flashback to Aug 15, 1999 includes:

  • Joel Kappa’s personal struggle against corruption in local courts, accusing Judge Black
  • Squeegee woman Patches account of harassment for her car window washing
  • Dragonfly on police shutdown of  Dark Goddess Vigil at the Town Clock
  • V-Man (Vinnie Lombardo) claims undue FRSC time focusing on KPFA’s firings rather than micropower station news.
  • Lighthouse Linda Lemaster talks about the Homeless Icky Task Farce
  • Jane Baer, Beach Flats resident and landlord, fighting for fairness with Dolphin-Lee project
  • “Battlin’” Bob Lamonica critiquing the “progressive” SCAN (Santa Cruz Action Network)
  • Lemaster on Rental Housing Current Initiatives and Herstory
  • Baer on “Steadfast” Steve Argue’s jailing for defending Julianna and her child from Officer Lefever.
  • “Dead On” David Silva critiques the criticism of Lemaster, supports Hate-Free Zone Initiative

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 29, 2026 show is a Flashback to the August 12, 1999 show with Berkeley attorney/artist/author Osha Neumann on KPFA’s struggle against corporate ownership & Alade Djehuti Mes on his dad’s killing by police

The January 29, 2026 show is a Flashback to August 12, 1999. 

It includes:

  • May 22nd Anti-War Protest and Arrests of the Santa Cruz Five & attendant police brutality
  • City Council Antics; Latest Police Review Board [CPRB] Right-wing Lisa Rose Appointee
  • [difficult to hear] Fred Geiger opposing tax giveaway to Seaside Corp  before City Council
  • Berkeley attorney Osha Neuman on Lockdown, Arrests & Corporate Takeover of KPFA
  • Oakland activist Alade Djehuti Mes, son of Charles Vaughn Sr. murdered by Seaside PD

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 25, 2026 show features ICE abuses, Coral St. homeless dispersal, and interviews with Keith + a Flashback to March 17, 2002 via October 11, 2015 highlighting Bathrobespierre’s arrest for a mock-Nazi salute

The January 25, 2026 show includes:

The Flashback to October 11, 2015 which itself leaps back to the entire March 17, 2002 show which includes:

  • Arrested for a silent “stop acting like Nazis” gesture—the Heil Krohn! Case that led to 10 years of court struggle
  • Demands to the Krohn Council:
  • [3-7] Jerry Henry facing Ali Baba’s repression at his Café on Pacific Ave.in Court
  • Henry & Scott Rhodes, in-studio guests, on community need to enforce Unruh Public Accommodations Act
  • Amy Courtney Bedsheets Bandista with anti-war placards on Hiway 1 overpass
  • [2-29] Santa Barbara’s Nuff Said Nancy McCrady & Beaming Bob Hansen fighting City’s RV ban
  • Phil Free’s sings “Hospitality Nazis”
  • [3-2] Interview with Santa Monica Denny’s “Virtual Lodger” “Darkwatcher” David Busch
  • Sleeping Ban and strategies to deal with police interaction…

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 22, 2026 show is a Flashback to the June 10, 1999 show featuring many times Mayor Mike Rotkin in an on-air discussion/debate with Bathrobespierre Robert over the City’s anti-homeless Sleeping Ban

The January 22, 2026 show is a Flashback to June 10, 1999. 

It includes:

  • Oakland’s Loitering law thrown out; recent Supreme Court loitering decision.
  • Ft. Lauderdale’s Steps to Ban Panhandling
  • Philadelphia studying “how to deal”with homeless panhandlers
  • Vigorous in-studio exchange with Councilmember Mike Rotkin, inveterate Sleeping Ban defender

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 18, 2026 show–features forums and updates from the California Homeless Union reps + a Flashback to June 13, 1999 with a wide range of reports, attorney Catnip Kate, poet Laura, & J. Baer on the Seaside Co.

The January 18, 2026 show includes:

  • Video of the 10 Year Anniversary of the Salinas/Monterey County, Re-Establishment of the National Union of the Homeless at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LGkeZsBR_Q
  • Alicia Kuhl, Santa Cruz Homeless Union [SCHU] activist, summarizes the S.C. struggle
  • Two San Luis Obispo activists emphasize their litany of woe & future dangers ahead
  • [throughout] Rovics & AI Tsuno sing & comment on “Guerrilla Radio Yearender 2026”
  • Sacramento Union pushes back against shelter waste in-and-out racket, taking over property; Sharon Jones on Camp Resolution’s fight to protect its residents
  • Gilroy’s Robert Aguirre on voter, financial  and court initiatives to empower 
  • Wes White on the Salinas Union’s tactics for fighting back
  • Attorney Anthony Prince on the importance of the encampments
  • Canadian Dr. Diedra Noonan in Gaza: https://broadview.org/canadian-doctor-gaza/
  • Legal panels at the event
  • Guerrilla Radio: John Helmer on All Things Russia in Feb 2025

The Flashback to June 13, 1999 includes among many other items:

  • Attorney “Catnip” Kate Wells using the Flory-Edwards-Jacobs defense for Dennis Rehm, the Steve Argue case
  • Edward deBolt on unfair management at the homeless shelters 
  • Costly overruns on the SCPD’s new police station
  • Sit-in to force Mayor Beiers to hold a public meeting with Rep Farr on U.S. bombing in Kosovo.
  • Katya Komissarack and Mike on alternate CD training
  • Downtown Association, Attorney Tony Bole, and Laura the Poet
  • Jane Baer’s Beach Flats Update
  • Daryl Williams on San Jose’s Citizen’s Tribunal

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 15, 2026 show is a Flashback to the June 6, 1999 show featuring Kosovo commentary, Roxanne Acquistepache on the “Progressive” Sell-Out of the Beach Flats, and more

The January 15, 2026 show is a Flashback to June 6, 1999. 

It includes [some of the accounts are fuzzy & hard-to-hear]

  • Gay Pride Day festivities and cautions: the trollbuster + Sleeping Ban Perfect Storm
  • Closer look at SCPD two assaults and arrests of “Steadfast”  Steve Argue for selling Street Spirit newspaper and defending a woman and her child in a protest; deconstruction of Councilmember “Riot Act” Rotkin’s public statements on the issue.
  • Terry Johnston, homeless gay man with serious HIV condition, describes how his sister lured him across the country into a coercive intervention.
  • Trollbuster assaults including Joe Barker’s account of his beating.
  • In-studio guest Roxanne Acquistepache, Beach Flats activist and resident, on the new City Council sell-out of residents there—extensive analysis & sharp critique
  • Caller and Beach Flats resident and landlord Jane Baer on City pressure on SCAN to create the Dolphin-Lee/Mercy Housing project in the Beach Flats
  • Roxanne calls for Take Back movement to restore the Beach Flats neighborhood to its residents.
  • Bathrobespierre on Homeless Services Center, City Council, and Councilmember Krohn’s ducking of the Sleeping Ban issue.
  • “Landfill Colony Faces Eviction”—the Albany struggle.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 11, 2026 show–Interviews aplenty with Lighthouse Linda, “Captain America”, “Ramblin’ Jack”, and Whipmaster Wes White

The January 11, 2026 show includes:

  • [1-8-26] Organizer Wes White briefs HUFF activists on his upcoming Salinas 10th Anniversary of the Salinas Homeless Union and the Reactivation of the National Homeless Union particularly in California.  Agenda of the 10th Anniversary event
  • [throughout] Rovics’ Ai Tsuno music and commentary
  • “Homelessness: Mayor Mahan Shift of Funds from Permanent Homes to Interim Housing has Sparked Debate Among Advocates from Encampments to Temporary Shelters
  • Doctor Suzie & Captain Max and the BiNobos: The Binobo Way
  • https://thestreetspirit.org/2026/01/06/in-dialogue-with-osha-neumann/
  • “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the upcoming (1-13-26) Santa Cruz Shitty Council agenda
  • “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster recalls her early days of homeless activism in the late 70’s—the Scotts Creek Bluff arrests and resistance
  • [1-6]  “Captain America” back from Los Angeles with a report from there and here
  • Risible Reflections from “Ramblin’ Jack”, the Mel-anious Marauder, Shane, Wolf, “Cover-Up” Craig.

Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides January 8, 2026 show is a Flashback to the complete March 25, 1999 show with interviews from Jackhammer John Vance, of Berkeley, ‘Nuf Said Nancy McCradie of Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz Streetstalkers Bob and Vinnie

The 1-8-26 show is a Flashback to March 25, 1999 which includes:

  • Harassment and verbal abuse by a passing squad car near the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center {HLOSC}
  • “Jackhammer” John Vance, Berkeley  activist and street button vendor on police crackdown in the “4th Block”
  • City Council buries Sleeping Ban Reform
  • V-Man’s court report and Bathrobepierre’s court advice
  • Beggarbacker Becky Johnson remembers Stickman Bruce Jenkins, recently died.
  • B.E. Smith’s cannabis defense strategies applied to Sleeping Ban Cases
  • In Ray Acosta’s trailer with a Monterey “homeless program” report
  • Bob Lamonica vs. Vinnie Lombardo: Different Roads to Breakthrough Bureaucracy
  • Joseph Nasworthy and other outside voices
  • Mardi Wormhaudt vetoes County Safe Sleeping Zone
  • “’Nuf Said’ Nancy McCradie on the Santa Barbara Sleeping Ban